I am an emeritus professor from Cornell University and was a Commissioned Lay Preacher in the Presbyterian Church (USA). For many years I have followed the Daily Lectionary as printed in the Mission Yearbook of my church. For each day of a two-year cycle, the lectionary lists four psalms and three other scriptural passages--usually one from the Old Testament and two from the New Testament. My practice is to copy down a verse or two from one of the psalms and from each of the other three passages. After I have written out all four selections, I reflect upon them, rearrange their order, and incorporate them into a meditation. Sometimes I retain much of the original wording; sometimes all that remains of a selection is an idea that was stimulated when I read the original words. All selections are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible. For the Daily Lectionary, see the link below.

In Your Faithfulness Humble Us, Jesus--March 10, 2014


 Lord Jesus, when we who claim
 to follow you are divided among ourselves,
when we cannot even speak peaceably to one another,
then in your faithfulness make us humble,
as John the baptizer was humble
in proclaiming you.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 119: 73-80; 145; 121; 6
Gen. 37:1-11
1 Cor. 1:1-19
Mark 1:1-13

Selected Verses
Ps. 119:75
 I know, O LORD, that your judgments are right,
          and that in faithfulness you have humbled me.

Gen. 37:4
But when [Joseph's] brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.

1 Cor. 1:10
Now I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you be in agreement and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same purpose.

Mark 1:7
[John the baptizer] proclaimed, "The one who is more powerful than I is coming after me; I am not worthy to stoop down and untie the thong of his sandals.  …"

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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